zvati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *zъvati, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zʋâti/
  • Hyphenation: zva‧ti

Verb

zvȁti impf (Cyrillic spelling зва̏ти)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to call
    Kako se zoveš? Zovem se Petar. ― What is your name? My name is Peter. (literally, “What do you call yourself? I call myself Peter.”)
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to summon
  3. (transitive, intransitive) to call, to invite (for a visit, wedding, guest etc.)
    zvati na telefon
    to call on the phone
  4. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) to decide, to call

Conjugation
Conjugation of zvati
Infinitive: zvati Present verbal adverb: zòvūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zvȃnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zovem zoveš zove zovemo zovete zovu
Future Future I zvat ću1
zvaću		 zvat ćeš1
zvaćeš		 zvat će1
zvaće		 zvat ćemo1
zvaćemo		 zvat ćete1
zvaćete		 zvat će1
zvaće
Future II budem zvao2 budeš zvao2 bude zvao2 budemo zvali2 budete zvali2 budu zvali2
Past Perfect zvao sam2 zvao si2 zvao je2 zvali smo2 zvali ste2 zvali su2
Pluperfect3 bio sam zvao2 bio si zvao2 bio je zvao2 bili smo zvali2 bili ste zvali2 bili su zvali2
Imperfect zvah zvaše zvaše zvasmo zvaste zvahu
Conditional I zvao bih2 zvao bi2 zvao bi2 zvali bismo2 zvali biste2 zvali bi2
Conditional II bio bih zvao2 bio bi zvao2 bio bi zvao2 bili bismo zvali2 bili biste zvali2 bili bi zvali2
Imperative — zovi — zovimo zovite —
Active past participle zvao m / zvala f / zvalo n zvali m / zvale f / zvala n
Passive past participle zvan m / zvana f / zvano n zvani m / zvane f / zvana n
1   Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic.
2   For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively.
3   Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.
  * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

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